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Hunt for two more Irishmen in Bolivian death plot probe

Bolivian authorities are seeking two Irish-passport holders, including a former member of the defence forces, who they say had links to the group accused of plotting to assassinate the president, Evo Morales.

Michael Dwyer, from Tipperary, was shot dead along with two others in Santa Cruz when Bolivian special forces raided their hotel on April 16.

The Sunday Times has seen copies of CVs held on the laptop of Eduardo Rosza Flores, the group's leader, which security sources say were those of applicants to join his "private army".

Two of the CVs are from Irish passport-holders, one of whom originally comes from Hungary. They are not among the three eastern Europeans known to have worked with Dwyer at IRMS, the security firm that protects Shell's gas-pipeline project in Mayo.

Dwyer told his family he was going to Bolivia for a "training course". At this stage police merely want to question